Pleurothallis uninervia Luer & Dodson 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name The One Nerved Pleurothallis [A Volcano in Costa Rica]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations of 720 to 850 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3, arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf, erect, loose, 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with a shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.

Similar to P divaricans but differs in the shallowly concave, single veined dorsal sepal and two veined synsepal. The petals are oblong and thickened towards the obtuse apex and the lip is broadly cordate and shallowly cordate without calli." Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

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